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		<title>Book Review: Valley of Death: The Tragedy at Dien Bien Phu That Led America into the Vietnam War by Ted Morgan</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 17:50:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Voves</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Giap had lost several family members to the rigors of French colonial rule, including his wife who was arrested and died in a French prison. A model of cool, methodical persistence, Giap was not goaded or tricked into a rash counterattack on Dien Bien Phu. He patiently assembled his forces, digging gun positions in the forested slopes overlooking the French defenses and amassing a huge supply of ammunition carried by thousands of porters through the jungle. Then on March 13, 1954, Giap struck at Dien Bien Phu, capturing several key strong-points and pounding the air strip so that supply planes could no longer land. The base aero-terrestre had become a death trap.]]></description>
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		<title>Book Review:  Voodoo Histories: The Role of the Conspiracy Theory in Shaping Modern History by David Aaronovitch</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jem Bloomfeld</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<em>Voodoo Histories</em> isn’t an attempt to tell everyone to chill out and stop worrying about what people in authority are up to.  Rather, it attempts the trickier task of explaining why a set of conspiracy theories do not hold water on close examination, and accounting for how they differ from traditional historical explanations - what is specifically “conspiracist” about them.]]></description>
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		<title>The Thirty Years War: Europe&#8217;s Tragedy by Peter H. Wilson</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/5837</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 14:52:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Voves</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In some respects, the Thirty Years War resembles the Great War of 1914-1918. Political friction in Central Europe sparked a rush to arms that dragged in nations and peoples whose best interests lay in peace not war. With the focus of Europe’s economic activity shifting toward the Atlantic Ocean and the East Indian trade zones, the small states of Central Europe needed to integrate their economies to stay competitive. The last thing that petty states like Bohemia, Saxony, Bavaria and the Rhineland needed to do was throw away lives and treasure in futile warfare. But fight they did – for thirty years.]]></description>
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		<title>The Imperial Cruise: A Secret History of Empire and War by James Bradley</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 14:36:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elinor Teele</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[James Bradley doesn't like Theodore Roosevelt. Let's get that clear from the get-go. Nor does he have much time for William Howard Taft, the gargantuan gourmand, Roosevelt's right-hand man and his successor as president. And after reading <em>The Imperial Cruise: A Secret History of Empire and War</em>, I have the sneaky suspicion that there's not much love lost for George Bush, either.]]></description>
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		<title>Churchill by Paul Johnson</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 14:46:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julia Braun Kessler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[And Johnson reminds us of the memorable words he spoke after France capitulated: “Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duty and so bear ourselves that if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years men will still say, ‘This was their finest hour.’” Here the biographer also observes,  “So the first true victory Britain won in the war was the victory of oratory and symbolism.  Churchill was responsible for both.”]]></description>
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		<title>Empire of Liberty A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815 by Gordon S. Wood</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/5212</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 15:20:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Voves</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The “Era of Good Feeling” that followed 1815, however, was of short duration. The issue of slavery could not be banished, as the crisis that erupted in 1819 over admitting Missouri as a slave state showed. Even Jefferson, the “Sage of Monticello,” began to have doubts about the future, fearing that the “Empire of Liberty” that he and the other “Founding Fathers” had created might not survive “the unwise and unworthy passions of their sons.”]]></description>
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		<title>Abraham Lincoln: A Life by Michael Burlingame</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/5017</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 16:06:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Bridges</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Never perhaps has there been such a masterful account of the man’s failures—and successes—in this country’s most taxing job. Look what Burlingame says he did in just his first hundred days in office: “…he raised and supplied an army, sent it into battle, held the Border States in the Union, helped thwart Confederate attempts to win European diplomatic recognition, declared a blockade, asserted leadership over his cabinet, dealt effectively with Congress, averted a potential crisis with Great Britain, and eloquently articulated the nature and purpose of the war.”]]></description>
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		<title>Dancing in the Dark: A Cultural History of the Great Depression by Morris Dickstein</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 15:46:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Voves</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was on the level of popular culture that the vital "center" of life in the United States held firm during the Great Depression. Weekly trips to the neighborhood movie house, looking at photos of a revitalized nation in <em>Life Magazine</em>, listening to President Roosevelt's Fireside Chats on the radio, following the home team in the still vigorous daily newspapers, these rituals of daily life were the principal means of keeping faith in America's future, of believing that the only thing to fear was fear itself.]]></description>
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		<title>With Hitler to the End: The Memoir of Hitler&#8217;s Valet by Heinz Linge</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/4854</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 18:08:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Holt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Unfortunately the book, while delivering a few marginal insights into Hitler’s character, motivations and global strategies, seems largely a one-dimensional narrative that more resembles a loss of contact with reality than a recounting of anything worthy of notice.]]></description>
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		<title>Democracy: 1,000 Years in Pursuit of British Liberty by Peter Kellner</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/4828</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 15:08:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jem Bloomfeld</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Magna Carta, that legendary document which is so frequently referred to in discussions of freedom, and which permeates our cultural history from Rudyard Kipling (“What say the reeds at Runnymede?”) to Tony Hancock (“Does Magna Carta mean nothing to you? Did she die in vain?! Brave Hungarian peasant girl…”) was produced by a power struggle between the military aristocracy and the monarchy. Any resulting “liberty” for ordinary people was a waste product of the medieval warlord industry.]]></description>
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		<title>Journalism’s Roving Eye:  A History of American Foreign Reporting by John Maxwell Hamilton</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/4759</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 13:45:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Bridges</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not all of the foreign correspondents for American papers were themselves American.  Karl Marx contributed almost five hundred articles on the European scene to Horace Greeley’s <em>New York Tribune</em> during the years between 1852 and 1861.  This was after Marx had published the <em>Communist Manifesto</em> and was working on <em>Das Kapital</em>; but his reportage for Greeley, though left-leaning, looks to a modern reader relatively objective. ]]></description>
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		<title>A New Look at Rome’s Rousing Middle Ages</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/4421</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 14:24:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Judith Harris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When its doors first opened in 1734, the Capitoline Museum, which stands upon the hilltop that is the very heart of Rome, was one of the first European public museums and a favorite haunt of the wealthy Grand Tourists from all over Europe. As of July 30 this venerable museum offers something novel to all tourists—a chance for a fresh look at a relatively neglected period of Roman history and the arts, the Middle Ages.]]></description>
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		<title>The Attack on the Liberty: The Untold Story of Israel&#8217;s Deadly 1967 Assault on a U.S. Spy Ship by James Scott</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/4079</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 14:39:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Abourezk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The book reveals for the first time the extent of the outrage and widespread disbelief of many of President Johnson’s senior advisers over Israel’s claim that the attack was an accident. Even LBJ was convinced the attack was no accident and confided his disbelief in Israel’s story to a Newsweek reporter, stating that he believed Israel attacked the ship because it was spying on the war. The book also quotes many senior State Department, Navy, NSA and CIA officials talking of their disbelief in the story.]]></description>
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		<title>The Travels of Marco Polo Translated by W. Marsden</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 13:55:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jascha Kessler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It seems that world is more fantastic than our own travel brochures today can suggest for comfortable tourists. There has never been such an extensive realm, nor one with such an incredible structure of rapid communication over thousands of miles. Commerce thrived from Persia to Java, and one reason that may account for it, was order — and a flat tax of 10%. The law was strict and strictly administered everywhere, which was a marvel to Polo, in comparison with fractious Europe.]]></description>
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		<title>Tears in the Darkness: The Story of the Bataan Death March and Its Aftermath by Michael Norman and Elizabeth M. Norman</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 14:06:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John R. Guthrie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This continued fighting retreat for allied forces persisted for the four bloody months from December 1941 to April of 1942. In an astounding oversight, General MacArthur, by then en route to Corregidor, disregarded the logistical requirements of his retreating army. He left behind, in one example, 450 million bushels of wheat in a single warehouse despite his junior offices protestations. His starving soldiers ended up eating carabou—until all carabou were gone—then snakes, lizards, crows, whatever. The allied forces, lacking resupply and experience, were pushed back repeatedly, finally making their last stand on the tip of Bataan at the town of Mariveles.]]></description>
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		<title>How Rome Fell by Adrian Goldsworthy</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 17:45:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Voves</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Goldsworthy takes many of the reasons advanced by earlier scholars and shows them to be of far less significance than is often believed. In some cases, many of the old explanations are simply incorrect. Rome’s growing reliance upon “barbarian” troops, for instance, more often helped to safeguard its frontiers than to threaten them. Nor did rusty drain pipes, moral depravity or savage Hun raiders storming across the Eurasian steppes knock Rome off its pedestal.]]></description>
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		<title>Celebrating Galileo in Florence</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2009 02:39:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Judith Harris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[2009 is officially “The Year of Astronomy,” commemorating Galilei’s first observation of the Moon through his telescope in November of 1609. Born in Pisa, Galileo Galilei worked in Florence, where the fourth centennial of his discovery is being celebrated with a stunning and sophisticated exhibition which took four years to prepare.]]></description>
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		<title>The Fires of Vesuvius: Pompeii Lost and Found by Mary Beard</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2009 16:04:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Judith Harris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nevertheless, in my personal library there are 130 books on Pompeii. Of all these, this is the one I would choose to read first.]]></description>
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		<title>The Patron’s Payoff: Conspicuous Commissions in Italian Renaissance Art by Jonathan K. Nelson and Richard J. Zeckhauser</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2009 16:22:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Judith Harris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[No less than the American financier who donates a museum wing on condition it bears his name, or the merchandiser who endows a university institute named for him, the results of Renaissance patronage had to be, first of all, highly visible.]]></description>
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		<title>Moscow &amp; St. Petersburg 1900-1920: Art, Life, &amp; Culture of the Russian Silver Age by John E. Bowlt</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2009 15:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Voves</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Writers of the caliber of Anton Chekov, Alexsander Blok and Anna Akhmatova, visionary artists like Mikhail Vrubel, Leon Bakst and Kazimir Malevich and inspired patrons like Diaghilev were matched by counterparts in music, architecture, the social sciences and Russia’s burgeoning Industrial Revolution. Composer Igor Stravinsky, the aviation pioneer Igor Sikorsky, dancer Vaslav Nijinksy and a host of others formed a constellation of talent worthy of comparison to the leading lights of Florence in the age of Lorenzo de Medici.]]></description>
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		<title>Kentucky Clay, Eleven Generations of a Southern Dynasty by Katherine Bateman</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/2439</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2009 15:08:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Judith Harris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“In the South, stories are the effervescence of conversation, and no stories are more gripping to an audience—relatives and stranger alike—than those about family.”]]></description>
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		<title>Erskine Childers and The Riddle of the Sands</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/2408</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2009 14:53:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brett F. Woods</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Set against the backdrop of a yachting trip to the German coast, the story weds a tale of adventure with the reality of Britain’s imperial overreach thus beginning a genre that – as continued by the likes of Joseph Conrad, Somerset Maugham, Graham Greene, and John le Carré – has matured into one of the most popular forms of entertainment in the literate world.]]></description>
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		<title>The Irish Americans: A History by Jay P. Dolan</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/2395</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jan 2009 15:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elinor Teele</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[America’s love affair with all things Irish – with J.F.K. and seedy bars in “The Departed,” with pure toned women in glaring-green dresses and fire-engine curls, with tales of New York firemen, Boston policemen and roguish politicians (Joe Biden is the first of four in an Irish Catholic family, though I know not if he is roguish) – is the culmination of three hundred years of complicated, contradictory and sometimes bitter, history.]]></description>
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		<title>Quarrel with the King by Adam Nicolson</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/2184</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Jan 2009 15:46:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Voves</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nicolson concludes his reflections by noting that “the custom of the manor” believed “to an extent the modern world can scarcely grasp, in the rights of the community as a living organism.”]]></description>
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		<title>Black River Falls, Wisconsin, 1893: News Reports and Photos from Wisconsin Death Trip</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2009 15:24:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Comstock</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tramps who were refused food at the home of John Ovenbeck in the town of Friendship, Winnebego County, entered the barn at night and cut the throats of 3 cows, which bled to death. A card attached to the horns of one bore the following message: ‘Remember us when we call for something to eat again’]]></description>
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		<title>Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief   by James M. McPherson</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/2058</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jan 2009 16:07:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Bridges</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lincoln came to the Presidency without any real military experience. He had been an Illinois militia captain in the Black Hawk War of 1832 but as he said in self-deprecation to his fellow Members of Congress in 1848, his combat record amounted to “charges upon the wild onions” and “a good many struggles with the musketoes.”]]></description>
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		<title>Dilettanti: The Antic and the Antique in Eighteenth-Century England by Bruce Redford</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/1730</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Nov 2008 14:07:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Judith Harris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A famous double portrait by Sir Joshua Reynolds shows members of the Dilettanti Society sipping away while making rude gestures about vaginas while holding up gemstones from classical antiquity and admiring painted Greco-Roman vases.]]></description>
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		<title>Frontiersman: Daniel Boone and the Making of America by Meredith Mason Brown</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Nov 2008 15:36:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elinor Teele</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was brutal stuff. Massacres, scalpings, crops burned, winters with only salted meat to eat – and this on both sides. Again Boone survived this melee, but it took a great deal of guile to do it. When his daughter Jemima was kidnapped by a Cherokee and Shawnee war party, for instance, he needed his backwoods know-how to track them down quickly and shoot the offenders.]]></description>
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		<title>Events Leading to America&#8217;s Involvement in Vietnam</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/1472</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2008 19:49:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rufus Phillips</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Given the political vacuum in the South, a Communist takeover of all of Vietnam within two years, or even less, seemed unavoidable. Beyond vague ideas of somehow rallying the Vietnamese in the South and contingency plans for creating stay-behind agents to conduct guerrilla warfare against the Vietminh, the U.S. had little idea of how to prevent a complete Communist take-over.]]></description>
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		<title>Résistance by Agnès Humbert</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2008 14:38:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elinor Teele</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The early resistors soon discover that the Nazis don’t view their activities with similar lightheartedness. Oblivious to the reason why a German car might be parked outside the hospital her mother is in, Humbert walks straight into hell. A member of the Gestapo has infiltrated and betrayed their group, and she and her friends are rounded up for a show trial. It is only April 1941. What follows is an account that tests our 21st century belief in rationalism.]]></description>
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